Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-03

| Angola, sensible girl that she was, soon
saw that her company was not required
and did not intrude herself on us. How
proud the simple maiden was, how her
bosom heaved and her voice thrilled as
she spoke blushingly to her friends as they
| passed her.
she fingered near one of the stalls
where the gewgaws displayed were of a
more costly and magnificent character
than elsewhere. | presented her with
earrings and breastpin. Prudence for
babe me adding a finger ring. Then her
eye rested on an ornamental dagger with
| a hilt OF pearl and ivory aud blade of
finely tempered steel-such an one as Lom-
bard girls still wear III their garter5.
Her look betrayed her spoken desire,
and purchased the pretty weapon Tor
her. Her eyes danced with delight as
she received it. L felt it to be a strange
| present, but it was more valuable and
more acceptable than the trinkets which
| preceded it. As she stopped to thrust it
inside Der garter, the bloom again mantled
| her cheek and sutfused her throat.
| To my mind she was then the persona
| tication of maidenly innocence and
| beauty.
Ten minutes afterwards one OF Giusep-
! pina's friends spoke To her. thought
Marietta the prettiest OF the dark damsels
| l bad seen, and said 80.
| "W i'll you not come with usY' | ask ed
of her. An indescrIbable look settled
on Giuseppina's countenance.
| II shall be very glad" my new friend
SAID, delighted at the invitation. she
would have linked her arm in that OF
Giuseppina. but the latter made an im-
patient gesture, seeing which l offered
Marietta my right arm, and she took it in
hers.
| l though Giuseppina must be i'll, she
/ was male and anppnaind thar we
| should Sit down in one OF the booths. She
| refused me, and as could not draw her
| into conversation beyond m0nOsyllabic
replies to my questions, l Jalke !
with Marietta who chatted enter
tainingly. The latter lived in the village
where was stopping, and l suggested
that she should accompany me In, s
Giacomo had promised TO stop for me
at an appointed place, and there would
be still an unoccupied seat which she
| could have.
Then Giuseppina remem bersd she was
| going on a visit 10 her cousins. There
was but one seat at my disposal, and
Marietta had accepted my invitation. L
thought of engaging another vehicle, but
my fair friend would not allow it, and
gloomIly said she would find convey
ance. A moment later she pretended
to recognize some one at a distance
and leaving me disappeared in the
| crowd.
/ was waiting for supper in the sitting
room which had been placed at the dis
| posal OF the professor aud me when a
tlmld knock came to the door. l told the
visitor to come in ana Giuseppina en-
tered. How changed she was since had
seen her a few hours before. The express
sion of gentle womanliness which had
captivated me was gone from ner face,
now Of cadaverous hue. Her eyes
! flashed beneath her knitted brows and her
bloodless lips were firmly set. / noticed
that she carried the dagger which had
| given her in the figured velvet belt around
| her waist.
She carefully closed the door after
| her.
why did you give your arm to Mari
eta? ?" she asked suddenly.
us she not your friendp l re-
| turned
"She was my friend, but l hate her
now"
The manner in which this was Missed
| from between her set teeth and the look
which accompanied her words left no
doubt as to the intensity of the feeling.
was embarrassed, for l did not CON-
prehend yet tue GRIPS meaning.
Il am truly Sorry" said APOLOGIZE
cally, that should have placed you In
a false position, but there seemed to be
nothing amiss when you spoke to each
other, or l should not have invited her TO
accompany u.s."
"Why did you call her pretty in my
presence? Why did you turn from me TO
praise her? and why did she dare to speak
to your
"surely," 1 began, 'you cannot blame
me-"
"Oh, no; do not blame you"
The old look came back, softer and
brighter than before, but 1t was but a
mOmentary transition, for the expression
OF inefable hatred returned as she cried
with fendish yehemence, "But hate her
Il hate her to DEATH"
Her hand nervously played about the
ornamental hilt of the dagger, but while
the action was afterward forcibly recalled
to my memory in connection with that
never-tO-be.forgotten scene, it did not i'm
press me at the time.
'Oh, don't be foolish" l said ip
a conoiliatory tone. 81 don't know how
she may have offended you before; bu,
you cannot blame her for the little
episode of to-day. 1t was my fault, moi
hers"
"Butyou do not like her so we'll as you
like meY'
All rancor had left her naturally
soft voice, the primary expression agair
illumined her countenance, and there
was something plaintive IN hel
sweet smile as she anXiously awaited my
answer.
"Of course not" l replied, hoping tC
complete her happiness.
She threw her arms about me and lay
ing her head on my shoulder relieved he
emotion in tears. l was stroking hel
hair when a footstep at the doc
caused her to start. The professor en-
tered with a bouquet, composed OF com
mon white and red roses and few tulips
in his hand.
"rhat young girl, Marietta, who rodt
over with US to-day sent you these" h'
said, arranging them III vase.
Giuseppina uttered vindictive CRY
and flew from the room. Supper was
brought moment later, and as sa
down to eat l felt inclined TO laugh at tn,
girPs grievance.
Sat on the piazza of our inn, which
glOried in the title OF Hotel della LON
bardie, watching the magnifed COLDER
sun descend behind the blue mountain
on the Piedmontese border which formed
the horizon. The dazzling sheen cast by
the gorgeous disk on the Ticinio, which
the glisten rendered visible in the dis
lance, seemed borne along on the narrow
stream until it became lost in the shade
OF the luXuriant foliage on either bank
rhe professor was packing up, as, havinl
rusticated long enough, we were to star
for Pavia, the city OF hundred towers. II
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